Streszczenie
The present essay deals with a specific phase in which Arabic language has been
introduced as a new discipline in the university curriculum in Portugal. From 1914 until
1974 it was taught practically in only one university, after 1974 new universities were
created and some of them have included this discipline in their curricula mainly as an
optional subject or a free course model. We shall analyse the conditions in which its study
has been carried out and the principal factors that contributed to the advancement of this
discipline. This essay is based on the bibliography listed below that covers a significant
part of the chronology considered and is complemented by recollection of information from
scattered sources of differentiated reliability, pamphlets issued by universities and other
institutions and in some cases on oral basis only. Therefore certain gaps or inaccuracy
of dates may involuntarily occur.